REEL FIVE Financial Papers; and Clippings. The first series of items on this reel relates to financial matters and includes: various bills and receipts for the period from 1833 to 1871, arranged chronologically; various undated bills and receipts, arranged alphabetically; thirteen bankbooks for the period from January 27, 1854, to November 16, 1868; a record of Ewing's Assets and Liabilities for the period from August 3, 1857, to March 2, 1867; accounts for the "Berne Estate," which Ewing apparently handled, for the years 1852 to 1855; and two account books containing records of the Zanesville and Maysville Turnpike for the years 1838 to 1843 and 1853 to 1855, respectively. The second and final series consists of nine newspaper clippings which cover the period from 1859 to 1870. Most of the bills and receipts, with which the reel begins, have notations on the reverse side. In filming, we have taken, first, the face of the item itself and, then, the side bearing the notation.
REEL SIX Material from the Philemon B. Ewing Papers; and material from the William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers. The first grouping on this reel consists of 189 items selected from the Philemon B. Ewing Papers for filming as part of this microfilm publication. Philemon was Thomas Ewing's son and, for a number of years, law partner. His papers constitute a separate subseries within the Ewing Family Papers in the possession of the University of Notre Dame Archives. The items selected for filming, most of which are letters from Ewing to his son, concern mainly legal and business matters. Especially significant among the few exceptions is a rough draft written in 1861 of a proposed address touching upon the Civil War. Items which bear dates or have been dated by us have been arranged chronologically. A few undated items will be found after the dated material. The material from the University of Notre Dame Archives' Collection of the William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers, filmed as the second and final series on this reel and the final series in this publication, is more extensive and much more varied. In addition to correspondence, there are also among the 275 items filmed various documents, clippings, scrapbooks and photographs. The correspondence, most of which was between Ewing and members of his family -- Sherman was raised by the Ewings and his wife, Ellen, was a daughter of Thomas Ewing -- varies from originals to photostatic copies, typewritten copies and handwritten copies. The Collection itself was the gift of the late Miss Eleanor Sherman Fitch, a granddaughter of General Sherman and great granddaughter of Thomas Ewing. For years prior to her death Miss Fitch had been gathering material concerning her family, acquiring copies of items in the possession of others, making copies of items in her own possession, arranging the material thus amassed, and adding thereto her own notations -- frequently on the papers themselves. Unfortunately, she did not complete the work of arranging the over-all Collection. However, where she did construct meaningful groupings, these have been adhered to in filming the items selected for inclusion in this microfilm publication. Items within each grouping have been filmed in chronological sequence with undated items pertaining to the particular grouping coming last. Where, as frequently occurs, we possess both the original and a copy, only the original has been microfilmed.